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Old February 3rd, 2004, 07:42 PM
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Don't understand this CSS
okay, so i was trying to accomplish the same thing as the website www.alistapart.com I wanted the same thing for the links up at the top, i achieved this by looking at this websites CSS file.

this was teh relevant CSS code:

PHP Code:
#menu UL {
    BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; 
                CLEAR: left; 
                PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; 
                PADDING-LEFT: 0px; 
                BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; 
                BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px;
                PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; 
                MARGIN: 0px; 
                PADDING-TOP: 0px; 
                LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none; 
                TEXT-ALIGN: center; 
                BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px
}
#menu UL LI {
    PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; 
                DISPLAY: block; 
                PADDING-LEFT: 0px; 
                FLOAT: left; 
                PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; 
                MARGIN: 0px; 
                PADDING-TOP: 0px;
                TEXT-ALIGN: center
}
#menu UL LI A {
    PADDING-RIGHT: 0px;
                BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid;
                DISPLAY: block; 
                PADDING-LEFT: 0px;
                FONT-WEIGHT: normal; 
                FONT-SIZE: x-small;
                BACKGROUND: #fff; 
                PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; 
                MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; 
                BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid;
                WIDTH: 118px;
                COLOR: #c30; 
                LINE-HEIGHT: 2em; 
                PADDING-TOP: 0px; 
                BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; 
                BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; 
                LETTER-SPACING: 1px;
                HEIGHT: 2em; 
                TEXT-ALIGN: center;
                TEXT-DECORATION: none;
                voice-family: inherit;
} 


lol so it accomplishes what im looking for but i don't understand WHY it does this.

Any help would be great!

thanks.
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what i mainly don't understand about it is: the links are typed in as a list in the HTML, so how does this get them horizontal?

thanks.
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Old February 4th, 2004, 01:53 AM
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Try reading the alistapart website some more. It's probably the worlds best one-stop-shop for webdesign tutorials & articles and a great way to start learning CSS.

They actually have an entire article (called 'taming lists') that explains in detail what the above css does...

Read my friend... read..
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they are using FLOAT: left;
on the li-element to get them on one line

you can achieve a similar effect by using display:inline on the li-elements,

then they use display:block on the anchor elements, so that they can set width and height to those elements.


http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/
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